-
planned to
surprise the
Mytileneans during the
celebration of an
upcoming festival in
honor of the
Malean Apollo. The
Mytileneans, however, were informed...
- the city well defended,
ordered the
Mytileneans to
surrender their fleet and tear down
their walls. The
Mytileneans refused this demand, and even went...
- general, Thrasybulus,
sails to ****s, where, with the
support of the
Mytileneans, he
defeats the
Spartan forces on the
island and wins over a
number of...
-
Sappho (/ˈsæfoʊ/; Gr****: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː];
Aeolic Gr**** Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an
Archaic Gr**** poet from
Eresos or
Mytilene on...
-
coins struck from the late
sixth through mid-fourth
centuries BC. The
Mytilenean revolt against Athens in 428 BC was
overcome by an
Athenian expeditionary...
-
Mytilene and
remained under Mytilenaean control until the
unsuccessful Mytilenean revolt in 428–427.
Athens liberated the so-called
Actaean cities (called...
- only Cleon's next
proposal was
carried out: to
punish by
death those Mytileneans who were sent by
Paches to
Athens (which were a
little over a thousand;...
- (/ˈpɪtəkəs/;
Ancient Gr****: Πιττακός; c. 640 – 568 BC) was an
ancient Mytilenean military general and one of the
Seven Sages of Greece.
Pittacus was a...
- have been
executed at the time or
after the siege,
because two
hundred Mytileneans were killed.
Pelusium probably surrendered itself immediately after the...
-
Lucullus pretended to give up on the
siege and
sailed away. When the
Mytileneans entered the
remnants of his camp,
Lucullus ambushed them,
killing 500...
